Posted by jmaasing on Feb 23, 2014; 10:33pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/gl-PointCoord-not-working-without-enabled-GL-POINT-SPRITE-is-it-a-bug-tp4029611p4031704.html

That sure sounds like a driver bug. Point sprites are (as you say) removed since GL 3.3. Hopefully that work-around does not produce errors on other drivers.